144 minute running time so at least 45 minutes too long … I loved Son of Saul, it was the best movie I saw from 2015, so I had high expectations for this one (same director), but this was a disappointment. He used the same camera technique of following the main actor around at close distance with the background people largely blurred, which was super effective in Son of Saul, but just didn’t work here.

I don’t know anything about the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the beginning of World War I, but even if I did, I don’t think I’d have been kept interested by this movie. The women were beautiful (Evelin Dobos, yowza!), it’s true, but other than that you just don’t know what the hell is going on 90% of the time, nor do you care. Give it a miss unless you have a beautiful Hungarian girlfriend.